2自殺例をめぐる地域社会および家族環境に関する考察

抄録

One hundred and eight workers as about 20% of all employees were discharged in an industry. Two of them made away with themselves. The mental hygienic study was made with regard to these 2 suicides, i.e. the socio-economical and cultural conditions in their community were observed and their families were diagnosed. The motivation for their suicides may be brought about by the anti-humanistic charactor possessed in the discharge. But, it was made clear that the follwoing factor existed in the back-grounds of them ; the signficance of the discharge on their life, the relation between the industry and their community or families, the socialvalue in the employment for them, and their personality. These suicides must be understood as a phenomenon of the strain in the process of modernization in the rural community.